Another round of Disc Golf during an unusually warm day (80s for December in Austin). This time we went to Bartholomew. This park looked pretty run down and Ghetto. Unfortunately, the course is not well marked. The holes are mainly steel and missing the yellow rings on the top. The throwing areas are not clearly marked (except for a couple of holes). And there was construction going on in the park, so I think we were missing a hole or two. We searched for a while for the first hole and then gave up and picked one. After the second hole of doing this, Jon finally found another disc golfer and asked where the holes were. So then we found hole one and decided to start over.

On one hole, Adam throws his disc way up high in a tree. And Jon climbs up it like a monkey to retreive it. The best part of the game was one hole where we had to throw over a rather large section of a river. Unfortunately, Jon’s disc goes right in the middle of the water. Now I am up to throw and, since I know Jon is going into the river to retrieve it, I decide to throw it over the water. And it makes it across! Woo woo!

Some of the off-limits parts of the course were the highway, fenced in construction areas, a building that contained a pool, and this crack house with an expert security system. And of course, we threw our discs into some of those areas.

After the game, we went down to Hula Hut for a good lunch. And afterwards, we drove over to Pease Park to buy some discs. We heard from John that there was a pro-shop in the park. And, to our amusement, this was it. But I did buy two more discs. These were an overstable and an understable long range driver, both weighing 174 grams. Hopefully, this will provide me with some scientific data. The are a lot of variables in a disc.